Come and See
Also known as Idi i smotri
1985 film by Elem Klimov
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8.2The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Released: 1985-10-17142 minDir: Elem KlimovDrama, War
Cast
- Aleksei Kravchenko as Flyora Gayshun
- Olga Mironova as Glasha
- Liubomiras Laucevičius as Kosach
- Vladas Bagdonas as Rubezh
- Jüri Lumiste as Obersturmführer
- Viktors Lorencs as Sturmbannführer
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Come and See is a 1985 Soviet epic historical anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. Its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1971 novel Khatyn (Russian: Хаты́нь), and the 1977 collection of survivor testimonies I Am from the Fiery Village (Russian: Я из огненной деревни, romanized: Ya iz ognennoy derevni), of which Adamovich was a co-author. Klimov had to fight eight years of censorship from the Soviet authorities before he was allowed to produce the film in its entirety.
The film's plot focuses on the German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II, and the events as witnessed by a young Belarusian teenager named Flyora, who joins a partisan unit, and thereafter depicts the Nazi atrocities and human suffering inflicted upon the populace. The film mixes hyper-realism with an underlying surrealism, and philosophical existentialism with poetical, psychological, political and apocalyptic themes. The film received positive reviews during its initial release and received the FIPRESCI prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. It is the last film that Klimov directed before his death.